Prince Philip: How the Royal Navy shaped the Duke of Edinburgh
BBC News Published media captionHow the Royal Navy shaped the Duke of Edinburgh The Duke of Edinburgh was an 18-month-old exile when he had his first brush with the Royal Navy. In 1922, he was carried on board a British warship in a makeshift cot fashioned from an orange crate, after the Greek military government had banished his family. So it might have seemed as if he was destined for a life at sea. After all, the duke's maternal grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had been admiral of the fleet and first sea lord - although he had to resign in 1914, amid a wave of anti-German feeling...
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